Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.